Ideas for recipe program?
Hey all. I'm going to start making a recipe storage program, that will allow storage, finding, and editing of recipes (Figured it would be a good program to practice more advanced stuff than I've done). I needed some help figuring out how to store, find, and edit recipes.
I know I could probably just figure out a way to use a text file, but that seems inefficient and annoying to add additional recipes, get them all read back in, and keep them in alphabetical order (or at least put them in alphabetical order after reading them in). Are there any more options for something like I'm trying to do? Maybe some sort of a database? I haven't learned anything about them, however, so I'm not sure if that's even the purpose of those.
Thank you!
Aeauvian wrote:
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My view is that you don't know anything if you have to ask about this. A person for whom relational databases was a good fit wouldn't have to ask.
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I don't know if I agree with this sentiment. Everyone had to learn such things somehow, and asking about it shouldn't automatically disqualify me from trying to learn it. It may be advanced, and I will look into it and see, but that doesn't mean it shouldnt be presented at least. Thank you for the suggestion of XML though. I will look into that one as well as the others and see which one will be the best fit.
On the main topic:
First off, I know I didn't really give requirements. The program is still in my head at the moment, since I wanted to figure out the data storage first. I'm still somewhat new to programming, so I don't want to start off too high. At first, I want to be able to have a basic program that just stores these recipes, and can be found later. I'm hoping to also eventually add ways to increase portion sizes (Kind of like allrecipes.com I believe), possibly a shopping list feature that will let you input current stock and figure out what is needed for the recipe (Almost exactly like the pantry idea, which I think would also be awesome). But again, I don't want to bite off more than I can chew; Hence why I didn't really give any real requirements as of yet.
Databases seem pretty flexible by what I've read so far, and I don't plan to use anything web-wise. They also seem, however, pretty difficult. I guess I'll attempt to read up on them and try to figure them out, and if I can't I might fall back onto XML until I can.
Thank you all for your suggestions so far. Keep them coming!What's the front-end of this application? Don't make the mistake that XML is a poor cousing of a database, it isn't
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Import Classes
import java.io.*;
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